1891 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
537 
CROP AND MARKET NOTES. 
Red apples sell b 83 t. 
Hay is hay this year. 
Hop prospects are Improving. 
Cherries are becoming scarcer. 
Never ship new potatoes in bags. 
Choice fresh laid eggs are scarce. 
The dried fruit market is on the fence. 
Currants have sold at good prices all the 
season. 
Still a few lots of inferior strawberries In 
market. 
Asparagus is much higher at the last of 
the season. 
The hop market is quiet but little (radlng 
being done. 
Last week one bale of hops was imported 
and 26 were exported. 
Apples come mostly from Delaware, 
Maryland and Virginia. 
Dealers do not think that the top grades 
of butter will go much lower. 
The Long Island potato crop is probably 
reduced at least 50 per cent by drought. 
Louisiana produced last year 46,845 
pounds of tobacco valued at $11,797 on 109 
acres. 
The half barrel basket makes a nice bas¬ 
ket for potatoes from nearby points where 
the baskets can be returned. 
Many of the recent arrivals of water¬ 
melons have been of extremely poor qual¬ 
ity. The market is overstocked. 
The first new wheat in the Philadelphia 
market was sold Tuesday at $1 per bushel. 
It was No. 2 Red grown on the Eastern 
Shore. 
Careful estimates of the peaches to be 
shipped from Kent and Queen Anne’s 
Counties, Maryland, place the number at 
nearly 3,500,000 baskets. 
The first bale of cotton of this year’s 
crop was received on Tuesday at Houston, 
Texas, from Duval County, that State. 
The first bale last year came from the same 
county on J uly 23. 
We have been asked as to the method of 
selling cucumbers for pickles. Most of the 
pickle makers buy their oucumbers in 
open market. One of them said he form¬ 
erly contracted, but was continually hav¬ 
ing trouble over the quality or price or over 
the manner of delivery, and he would make 
no more contracts. The commission mer¬ 
chants all handle cucumbers in their sea¬ 
son. 
It is no use talking, said Mr. G. S. Palmer 
of 166 Reade Street, California fruits have 
come to stay and Eastern fruit growers 
may as well make up their minds to that 
effect. The superior style of package and 
better grading will sell the fruit at prices 
we can’t hope to obtain for Eastern fruit as 
it comes to us. There are some cherries 
now that a few years ago would have sold 
off quickly. They are fair fruit but not 
neatly packed or properly assorted. They 
will not sell in competition with those from 
California. Eastern growers must improve 
upon their methods of assorting and pack¬ 
ing. 
A novelty in this market is apples from 
Tasmania. The first have made their ap¬ 
pearance within a few days. They much re¬ 
semble Newtown Pippins and bear the lat¬ 
ter part of that name. Tney are inclosed in 
flat boxes holding about one bushel each, 
made of oak riven out like shingles, each 
apple being wrapped In paper. Tney are as 
sound and fresh looking as the soundest 
Baldwins in midwinter. Tneir place of 
growth is about as far south of the equator 
as New York is north of it so it is now 
midwinter there. The apples sold for about 
$2 to $2 50 per box. Had they come a little 
earlier before small fruits became so plenti¬ 
ful they would probably have sold better. 
Whether the venture of shipping them that 
distance proves a profitable one we do not 
know. 
TO COLORADO VIA 
BURLINGTON ROUTE 
ONLY ONE NIGHT ON THE ROAD. 
Leave Chicago at 1:00 P. M., or St. Louis 
at 8 :25 A. M., and arrive Denver 6:15 P. M. 
the next day. Through Sleepers, Chair 
Cars and Dining Cars. All Railways from 
the East connect with these trains and 
with similar trains via Burlington Route 
to Denver, leaving Chicago at 6:10 P. M., 
St. Louis at 8:15 P. M., and Peoria at 3 :20 
P. M. and 8 :00 P. M. All trains daily. 
Tourist tickets are now on sale, and can 
be had of ticket agents of all roads and at 
Burlington Route depots in Chicago, Peo¬ 
ria and St. Louis. 
There is no better place than Colorado 
for those seeking rest and pleasure.— Adv. 
LATEST WHOLESALE PEI0ES 
COUNTRY PRODUCE. 
Now York Saturday, July n. i8qi 
Beans are unchanged In price with a firm feeling 
and light trading. Gr en pease are less firm. 
Marrows—New. *1 600*7 50 New Mediums oholce, 
*2 30; Pea, *2 30; Red Kidney, *2 75 3*2 90 White 
Kidney, choice, *2 40 3*2 50 ■ Foreign Mediums. *2 153 
•2 20; do Marrow, *>853*2 40: do Pea, *2 20-=*2 25; 
Green Peas. *1 153* 20 California Lima, *2 65 3*2 70. 
Butter Is weak, the demand not equaling the sup¬ 
ply and in spite of large quantities which have gone 
Into cold storage, prices have declined slightly. 
Extra creamery Is about the only grade that shows 
any l'fe and the stocks of this are not large. A light 
export trade Is in part responsible for the dullness. 
Creamery.— Elgin, best IS 3-c: State and Penn¬ 
sylvania. 16018%c; Western best. 18 l-c; do prime, 
1601614c; do good. 15015%c ; do poor, 14014%c ; West- 
ern Imitation Creamery, prime. 150—c • do fine, 18 
014c: do poor, 12®l2%c. Dairy.— State, best. 1744018c! 
do prime, 1601614c: do good. 1501514c: do poor. 14 3—c: 
Western, prime. 140—c : do fair, 130—c : do poor 12 
0— c: do factory, best, 13%014c: do prime 130—c do 
good, 12012!*c. 
Cheese Is about with butter In a light export de¬ 
mand and a dull market. The feeling, however, Is 
firm under present prices. 
Best factory, colored, 81* 38%c ; best factory, white, 
&%@8%c: good factory, 74408c; fair factory, 707%c, 
part skims, best 6 6%c; fair skims 5@544e • common 
skims, 31404c . full skims, 2fr2%c ; Ohio flat, 5@6>8C. 
Eoos are firm for prime f took which forms a small 
proportion of the re elpts. Inferior grades are ilenti- 
ful and are Irregular In price. There is a disposition 
to put on the market some of the eggs from cold 
storage of which there Is a heavy stock. 
Near-by, fresh, 18%0—c: Canadian, —0—c; South¬ 
ern 16 tl7c: Western, best. 17!4'» 18c. 
Fruits.— Apples are plentiful, but the demand Is 
limited and sales are slow. Most of the receipts are 
of poor quality. There are large qunntltl s of early 
peaches from Maryland and Delaware, but they sell 
slowly at extremely low prices. Le Conte Pears are 
In large supply and lower. An occasional lot of 
strawberries Is still seen, but the season Is practically 
over. Raspberries have b en quite plentiful : the 
reds have been of better qusllty than the blacks. 
Blackberries are coming In more freely and are a 
trifle lower Grapes from Florida are In market, but 
sell slowly. Huckleberries In large supply and lower. 
Musk melons lower Water melons are tartly de- 
moral'zed, some Inferior lots hardly bringing enough 
to pay freight. Too many poor ones are shipped and 
they cannot but pr,ve disastrous to shippers. Evap¬ 
orated apples are lower. Other dried fruits un¬ 
changed. 
Apples, Southern, per crate, 35c@*l 25; do per bbl., 
*1 2'0*2 50; Pears, Le Conte, per bbl., *2 500*6 00; 
Huckleberries. 7014c per quart; Lemons, per box, 
$30 *5 75; Peaches, per crate, 4'*c@*l 50; Gooseberries, 
per quart, 609c; Cherries, per lb. 4313c ; Plums, Wild 
Goose, per ease, *2 250*3 25. Blackberries, per quart, 
5810c; Musk-melons, per crate, 75e@f3 00; Water- 
me’ons, i er 100. * Q 0*15. Raspberries, per pint. 30 
8c. Currants, per lb., 53 8c. Grapes, Fla., Niagara, 
per lb , 10015c; do, do, Ives, per lb.. 8010c. 
Dried.—E vaporated apples, fancy, 9V4@l0c: prime 
to choice, 81439c; poor, 7)4* 8c ; sun-dried sliced. 8 
0»c; cores and skins, 20—c: chops, 2143314c; cher¬ 
ries, 11017c; raspberries, >.6<519c; blackberries, 314 
04l*c. Califo nla peaches, unpeeled, 10012c; apricots, 
10014c. 
Hay Is more plentiful and a trifle lower, but it 
seems unlikely lhat mu h lower prices will prevail. 
Choice. *1@*-, Ttmotuy, No. 1, 900—c ; do No 
2 750800: shipping, 65070c; Clover Mixed. 55?60c. 
8traw—No. 1 rye. 75 080c.; short rye, 55365c: oat, 50c. 
Poultry —Live is a trifle lower than last week, 
though this Is a fluctuation due to transient causes. 
The arrivals are light and the remand good. This 
month and nest Is a good time to market the live 
fowls and surplus chickens Dressed fowls and 
chickens have been in good demand for prime stock. 
Prime ducks have also been in good demand. Game 
Is not in market to any extent and prices If quoted 
would be only nominal. 
Poultry—Live.— Chickens—Spring, per lb., I6c0 
22c; Fowls, near-by,per lb 130 - o, do Western,per lb, 
1214® 13c; roosters, old, per lb, 7c; Turkeys, per lb, 
lO011o; Ducks, Wescern, per pair, 65075c; Geese, 
Western, per pair, *1 250*1 50 
Poultry.-Dressed— 1 Turkeys, mixed, per lb. 100 
12c; Fowls, western, choice. 1301314c; do common to 
good, 11012c, nearby, 1331314c: Ducks, good. 8019. 
8quan: white, per dozen, *3 250*-; do dark, do, *2 00 
Broilers, 25030c. 
Vegetables.— Potatoes are a trifle higher and Arm. 
The Long Island crop has been badly Injured, many 
of them p st recovery, by drought, and recelp's of 
Southern are lighter. Few have come from farther 
north and out of town orders have been heavy. 
Onions a e considerably higher and scarce. Cabbages 
are In light supply and Arm. Pears and string beans 
are plentiful and lower. Tomatoes from south Jersey 
sell well, but much of the Southern sto k Is poor and 
sells at low pMces. Cucumbers are plentiful and 
lower. Yellow squashes from Long Island sell best. 
Green corn from south Jersey Is not of good quality 
and sells slowly. Taken altogether the market Is 
well supplied. 
Potatoes-L. I., per bbl. *2 500*2 75 do Norfolk, per 
do., *2 750*3 25; Eastern frhore, do, *2 50" *3 Onions— 
Potato, per bbl, *5 uO0*6 00 ; do per basket $2 500*3; 
do Jersey Yellow, per bbl, $1 0)0*5 50. Cabbage, L. I., 
per 100, *3^)a*6 00; Squash, per bbl., *1 500*2 50; 
Turnips, per 100 bunches, *1 CO 3*150, Egg Plant, South¬ 
ern, per bbl., *40*6, Cauliflower, per 100, *!@$2 00; 
String Beans, per bag, *10*125; Cucumbers. South¬ 
ern, per crate, 6Oc0?l. Tomatoes, per crate, 5Oc0|l 50. 
Peas, Long Island, per bag, *1 25 3*1 50. Beets, per 100 
bunches, *1 503*2 00; Asparagus, per doz. bunches, 
75c@*3 uo. Corn, per 1(0, 60c@*l CO. 
Wool —The market has an easy look, though prlf es 
of small lines of stock remain mu< h the same. Fine 
XX fleece, 3 He, and fine delaine, 35c; No. 1 half 
blood, 36c, spring Texas, 17021c, and spriDg California, 
170 25c. 
GRAIN MARKETS. 
WHEAT.—Sales. No. 2 Chicago Spring, *102540 
*103 afloat: Ungraded Winter Red 99o0*l 06%; No. 
2 Red, $1 050*1 0544 afloat; do Augu-t, *1 0!94(«*1 02 ; 
do f. o. b„ *1 040*1 06%; do In store, quoted at *1 0334 
0*108%; No. 1 Northern Spring, nominal, *1 0654 
afloat; No. 2 July, *1 0C%@*1 01% > do August, 97 1116 
09814c; do September. 970 9754c; do October 9"54c ; do 
November. 93Vc; do December, 9334"-9914; do January, 
9944c0$l do February. * 108 ; do May, *10303103%. 
RYE—Very strongly held but trading slow. Prices 
In consequence are more or less nominal. Sales.— 
Wf stprn for September delivery quoted at 7'c; State 
for September, nominal CORN.—The spot market 
advanced; trading was slow. Sales-Ungraded Mixed 
and White, 7lfti76c; No 2 mixed, 7114072 elevator; 73 
@7314c afloat; Yellow, 73c elevator ; No. 2 White, 810 
82c ; No. 2 Mixed Special July,70c;No 2 July, 66140 
6714c: do August, f 2%(S 64Hc; do September, cU%0 
6154 c; do October, 59%3 60c; do Decemner, 5S5435>Mc. 
OATS.—On the spot there was a rise. Sales—No. 3 
mixed, 43 3431*c elevator; No. 3 white, 46Hc elevator’ 
No. 2 mixed, 44 34114c elevator; 4504514c afloat; No' 
2 white. 47@47)4c elevator; No. 1 White, 50 50J4c ele¬ 
vator; No. 2 Chicago, 45@45>4c; Ungraded Mixed 
Western, 4104614c White do, 44359c ;No. 2 July, 430 
4354c ; do August, 37@37>4c ; do September, 34c ; No. 2 
White, July, 46@47J4c. 
LIVE STOCK MARKETS. 
BEEVFS.—Trade moderately active for all grades, 
but at a decline on everything but top cattle. All 
sold at *4 25 •’*6 V5 for poorest to best native steers, 
outside flgitre for five car loads of choice starch fac¬ 
tory fed catt e from Indiana. Oxen and stags sold 
at *3 50 *4 65; bulls at *2 050*4 25; cows at *2 260 
*3 25. City dressed beef had a fair Inquiry at 6' 7c 
for Texas sides and 7% 9<c for rative do (choice, 
954c.) European markets unchanged at 554d for re¬ 
frigerated beef, and 6%07d for American steers, 
estimated dead weight. 
MILCH COWS.-Feeling firmer, and prices from *3 
to *5 per head higher than last we’k for good stock. 
The selling range was from *25 to f4\ 
CALVES.—The market opened active and very firm 
all around, but closed a trifle weak on veals. About 
everything sold, at 834c for buttermilk calves, 33405c 
for fed and mixed do, 63 654c for fair to choice veals 
(culls 5®55<c), and a few extra selectef brought 7c. 
Dressed calves In good demand at 506%c for butter¬ 
milks, 70 93 for country dressed veals, 8010c for city 
dressed, and active stock sold up to 10%c. 
SHEEP AND LAMBS.—Sheep continue scarce and 
the market rulel firm and higher for good stock. 
Lambs were In abundant supply, and the market still 
further declined, with sal< s <5 4 c lower than Mon. 
day. Poorest to best sheep sold at »4 250*5 90: com. 
mon to prime lambs at *H@*7 25 (one bunch at *7 50). 
Dressed mutton firm at °%0'O%c, and dressed lambs 
lower at 9012c with the bulk of the sales at9%@U%c. 
HOGS.—Steady for live hogs at (5 10 '*5 40. 
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